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Last week I showed you how NOT to store your users’ passwords in your database: the biggest sin of all is storing them as plaintext and the ‘false sense of security’ solution is to apply a hashing algorithm to them.
We saw that we can use a common hashing algorithm (the algorithm I used is called [...]

I’m currently working on a PHP-based web site that stores member details – username, address, password etc in a database. Nothing unusual here… literally millions of web sites on the internet are doing exactly the same thing.
But password storage is a dangerous area. Every month we hear about a high-profile web site being hacked into and all [...]

A good term at BCIT this Spring. A very good term, both in terms (oh dear!) of course enjoyment and in terms of marks.
I took the 12 week ‘XML For Web Applications’ COMP2899 course downtown. My first course at the downtown campus – it’s really nice there: very modern and shiny. Course was also excellent [...]